I recently got a utrecht brand 2b pencil, it was feeling really nice when sketching on tracing paper. With that one pencil I could get nice lights and darks, it went on the paper really smooth. I noticed though that when I used it in my sketchbook, I wasn’t getting the same range of tone (in general it was much lighter). My sketchbook paper is much rougher than the tracing paper, I’m thinking that might be what’s causing the difference.
I bought a faber castell brand 2b pencil today and was trying that one out in my sketchboook, much nicer results! I’ll have to try this pencil out on tracing paper and see how it feels.
